Anselm Kiefer "The Morgenthau Plan" at GAGOSIAN GALLERY

James Kalm goes on the DL (Down Low) again to bring viewers exclusive unauthorized video footage of Anselm Kiefer's "the Morganthau Plan". From the Gagosian Gallery Press release: "Proposed in 1944 by former United States Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, the plan was conceived to transform post-war Germany into a pre-industrial, agricultural nation, allegedly in order to limit the country's ability to wage war. Morgenthau sought to divide Germany into two independent states, annexing or dismantling all German centers of industry in an arrangement that would have led to the death of millions by pestilence and starvation. Although the Morgenthau Plan was never realized in its original and most extreme form, it represented an alternative post-war Germany potentially occupied more by farmland and plant-life than industry. In his latest paintings, Kiefer explores the landscape of this double-sided initiative. Flowers—one of his central leitmotifs—bloom through the devastation."